Converts this IP address to a String. The string returned is of the form: hostname / literal IP address. If the host name is unresolved, no reverse name service lookup is performed. The hostname part will be represented by an empty string.

The slash you're seeing is probably when you do an implicit toString() on the returned InetAddress as you try to print it out, which prints the host name and address delimited by a slash (e.g. stackoverflow.com/64.34.119.12). You could use